U.S. President Donald Trump has once again confused Armenia with Albania, claiming he stopped a “terrible war” between Albania and Cambodia.
Speaking on September 20 at a meeting with founders of the Cornerstone Institute, Trump stated that Albania (referring to Armenia) had been at war with Cambodia, and that he had put an end to that conflict. The statement was reported by Komsomolskaya Pravda.
“We stopped the conflict between Cambodia and Albania (Armenia). It had just started, and it was a bad conflict… Now we have Cambodia, Armenia. We have Kosovo, Serbia, Israel, Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia,” Trump said.
This isn’t the first time Trump has referred to Armenia as Albania and called Azerbaijan “Aberbaijan.”
Commenting on Trump’s repeated mix-up, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said during a September 18 press briefing that “any person, including a head of state, corrects their slips appropriately,” adding that Trump had already done so, including in his latest post on X.
On September 18, during a joint press conference with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Trump again confused Armenia with Albania while discussing normalization with Azerbaijan. Similar mistakes occurred during a Fox News interview on September 12 and an earlier August interview with American journalist Mark Levin.
